January 2011
Reblog if you live here!
via slaughtered:
So this is clever; combine a geolocation (IP mapping?) service to the right image (hand-crafted look; doesn’t look generated) and for a moment there I was delighted that more than 10000 people on tumblr lived in Utrecht; time for a meetup! But unfortunately not.
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Mmh, I would love it if Tumblr made its money this... →
modernnerd:
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.
$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.
The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use…
Best part; I think Tumblr would make more money this way than if it were all just going to themselves…
▶ Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder →
This is very easy to listen to and great to work to. I tried the Thriller one by Tophercris… not so much. There is an art to these things.
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Sorry, no consuming →
bobulate:
The photography project, Sorry, We’re Closed, intends to teach people to look at familiar things in a different light:Say a fisherman gets dropped off at his fishing lake every day and fishes for his living. Imagine if his pole broke on the first cast of the day, and he was left to sit by the lake all day until his ride came back. He would probably start to see the beauty of the lake,...
boomshakalakashirt.com →
I sometimes design t-shirts on a whim, like this one, which, unlike the others that I throw up there, actually sells sometimes, so I decided it needed deserved its own url. If I sell some more it will get its own site.
The light that burns a hundred times as bright... →
Battery Lifetime: 5 Minutes
“Once you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong...”
– Undercover User Experience Design by Cennydd Bowles and James Box (via slantback)
“Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever...”
– DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS | More Intelligent Life (via jomc)
“people suffer short-term regret when they choose pleasure over work, but once a...”
– Don’t take frugality too far Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate. Reject positive thinking | Science | The Guardian
“These are troubled times for the leading proponents of positive thinking (though...”
– Again from the excellent Guardian article:
…our current financial crises may be at least partly attributable to a blindly optimistic, failure-is-impossible ethos in the financial services industry.
A Canadian study suggested positive affirmations – such as “I am a lovable person!” –...
